From bread tags to industrial and agricultural waste, Brad and Narelle Scott, from Robe, SA, are reimagining plastic.
Story + Photos Mandy McKeesick
After 12 months on the road travelling around Australia, Narelle Scott was ready for permanency, and the small seaside town of Robe, SA, seemed the ideal place to put down roots. However, she had one problem. Her husband Brad still had wanderlust. So, she bribed him. “I told him I would get a full-time job and support us both, and we’d buy him a shed, and he could figure out something with his chemistry degree,” she says.
Imagine Brad’s face as he stood beside his empty shed in a backstreet of Robe and pondered the possibilities. “I’d been watching Breaking Bad [about a chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine manufacturer] so that idea crossed my mind momentarily,” he jokes. “Then I considered a gin distillery, but eventually I settled on plastics. I thought making a micro-recycling factory would be very cool, purposeful and a way to bring recycling into regions.”
This story excerpt is from issue #167
Outback Magazine: June/July 2026
